About these . . .

This is a very motley collection of documents from the Post Office Department. There are applications for office moves, applications to establish new post offices, and a few other random pieces of government paperwork.

Some tiny post offices have many pages, some larger towns have a few, and some towns don't have any. There is no consistency at all here, and they are by no means complete.

Most of them have accompanying maps. Some of the maps are wonderful; others are just sad. In defense of the people tasked with drawing them, the post office forms were odd, and, in later years, asked the Kentucky postmaster to locate his PO using townships and ranges. It justifiably left most of them to make up whatever they could.

There is good stuff to be found here. Check out the application for South Ripley to change to Howard, but then changed to Sharon.

All are pdf's.

from the National Archives. See: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68389322

Mason starts at page 271.